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Australia’s renewable energy development pipeline has grown to a record 133GW, prompting leading Norwegian-based energy analyst Rystad Energy to predict that coal-fired generation in Australia may be ‘extinct’ by 2040.

The combined output of wind and solar generation has beaten brown coal for the first time over a quarterly period in Australia's main grid, according to new data from energy consultancy Energy Synapse.

With the new year closing in on us, the National Solar Subsidy for residential and commercial Solar installations is set to be slashed once again.

"In Australia, renewable energy is growing at a per capita rate ten times faster than the world average. Between 2018 and 2020, Australia will install more than 16 gigawatts of wind and solar, an average rate of 220 watts per person per year."

Australia's largest integrated battery and solar farm was officially opened in Victoria's north on Friday.

Rooftop solar industry veterans say Australia has become a dumping ground for poor-quality solar products and some are questioning the regulatory oversight of household rooftop solar installers and products.
Article by Liz Hobday and Sybillia Gross, ABC News Australia

The first Australian Solar Farm in Antarctica was switched on Sunday, March 19 at Casey Research Station.

Works have begun on a University of Queensland-owned 64MW solar farm that – once completed – will help make UQ the first major university in the world to offset 100 per cent of its electricity usage through its own renewable energy assets. - Article by Sophie Vorrath, RenewEconomy

A grant of nearly $1 million has been announced for a 100% renewable energy project which will see the World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest reduce its reliance on diesel fuel to generate power.
- Story by Marjia Maisch, PV Magazine Australia

(Renew Economy) Leading economist and climate change policy expert Professor Ross Garnaut says that Australia could be powered 100 per cent by “intermittent” renewables by the early 2030s,and have a grid that is both reliable and secure and cheaper than it is now
- Giles Parkinson

"(Bloomberg) -- For two decades, coal has been pulled from a Bent Mountain mine in eastern Kentucky. But in a startling move in the heart of coal country, a rival -- solar -- is preparing to move on to the land."

Australian rooftops added a record of almost 500 megawatts of new solar photovoltaic capacity in the March quarter, as Victoria's incentive scheme stoked a 90 per cent increase in that state's installations - Article by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald